Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect anything dramatic," he says. While he admits as chairman he must look at the number of concentrators, Huggins says he doesn't want to focus on quantity. "It's a qualitative matter--I see it as a way of developing a competence in students, a means of training oneself to do something they could not do otherwise...
...should have thumped old France on the back it turned. Of course, ideals really have nothing to do with the relationship. The U.S. is sore as hell at France (the U.S. is usually sore as hell at France) because France insists on being itself. Not that being oneself is necessarily a virtue in this instance. Friendship also depends on a shared sense of values...
...pursue trade, cultural exchanges and diplomatic dialogues. But to the extent that accommodation means a series of small settlements on Soviet terms, the Europeans acquire a new kind of uneasiness. "Which is better?" asks Hamburg Publisher Gerd Bucerius. "To be allied with a mistake-prone America or to find oneself confronted by the Soviets without any alliance." To Bucerius, and he is far from alone, the question answers itself...
...worst and not necessarily the only possible one. It is always a mistake to understand him too quickly or simply. If preached from a pulpit, the theology bandied about in this novel would empty most churches in seconds. Says Fischer: "I wonder by the way . . . how one would revenge oneself on God. I suppose Christians would say by hurting his son." No character contradicts this view of religion as endless ferocity and agony, though a consolation is implied in the narrative: better to believe in this har rowing of heaven than in nothing...
...possible at all. She writes: "So much of what you had counted on as a solid wall of convictions now seems on bad nights, or in sickness, or just weakness, no longer made of much that can be leaned against. It is then that one can barely place oneself in time...